First control the Senate, then the galaxy. They cant sanction you if they are dead, and its not a warcrime if you leave no witnessess. - Emperor Palpatine (at least in my head)
I realized that my vassals who were in the galactic community did get sanctioned because they had a collosus. therefore I chise to end the galactic community myself
Kind of funny that people complain about how violent Cod and other games are. Then there is stellaris, a game not so many people know about, where you do a galactic genocide because someone killed your pet
I named one of my leaders for her and she suddenly got invested and wanted to know what her character was doing and why and eventually she was demanding I enslave some cuter xenos as pets in her sector
It's often said that if your playing as Humans in Stellaris you start out trying to be like the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek and by the end of your game end up like The Imperium of Man from 40k.
Well when you try to make the Galaxy play nice, but then then an empire defeats you in a war and cracks Earth, you tend to seek revenge on the Galaxy at Large for its treacherous acts
I started as the Imperium, and I ended as the Imperium. When the Unbidden invaded and I owned a third of a very large galaxy, did I worry? No. I continued my campaigns of genocide against my neighbors. When the Unbidden reached my borders and it turned out that my ships were very poorly optimized to fight them, did I pull the fleets back to retrofit them? Roll out new designs? Do literally anything at all to reduce losses? No. I proceeded to drown them in ships and the vastness of my empire allowed me to be able to tank those losses and keep going until I won.
Oh would you look at the time! This planet is over due a good dose of genocide. Just skip the Javorian Pox indiscriminate bombardment and get straight to the Cracker!
I remember doing a pacifist run. I only had about 7 systems or and was able to repair a ring world putting all my resources into it. Every economy boomed until a nation declared war on me. I was too late and my terra blew up, ive never cracked so many planets in one run.
Every time you start up Stellaris and create a new galaxy, whether that galaxy be populated by randomly generated Empire, or Empires you made, it is a new story. One where you let your imagination fill in the blanks.
@@chengzhou8711 until some one become a crisis or crisis took over the galaxy man... So ... Basicly you have to fight with xenos , necron , tyranid or chaos . And if you can active war in heaven chain it will more wholesome
I wish that we could actually see our people, our cities, our planets in Stellaris. Instead of just playing on a map, I wish we could actually see the life in our empire and see what impacts our decisions are having.
Citizens:i only want to live in peace D: me: silence! me: you are only a resource to me :) *proceeds to sell his population in to the galactic Slave market*
@@ivanelias3916 my dudes are in peace I literally made them immortal and created humongous fleets with tons of power I didn’t conquer at the beginning much I just started researching and evolving my people
"They younger Generations fault us for Purging the Galaxy of Prikkiti." "They are just cute Geckos!" "They say. They have never been to the Camps, they have never been to the Ovens. There are no Graves. There is only Ash. Its not retribution. Its paying them in kind."
Some random race takes a planet I wanted. My fleet appearing over their homeworld: "We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects."
I can imagine 2 grand empires who got wronged by their federations, allying to dominate and purge the galaxy, and the galactic community electing the humans as custodians and uniting against the common survival, and to think this is totally possible in game, damn I love Stellaris
@@roulo5516basically war in heaven but The Old One already create Human as contingency protocol against many sh!t in galaxy, making an emperor class human as the leader and blank psycher to be their executioner
Be a small civilization. Find ton of exotic gas. Galactic council formed. Bribe everybody with exotic gas. Become custodian. Bribe everybody with more gas. Declare galactic empire. Become emperor. Bribe everybody with even more exotic gas. Disband council. Then you pass a law that forbids all wars. And it works. You're a race of space squirrels ruling galactic empire. Approval ratings sky high. On anniversary of your coronation day, you address the empire and ask: "Hey. We always wanted to know. What did you even need all that gas for?".
“From the dense core of the galaxy to the most remote star systems, until our terms are met, YOU WILL KNOW HUMANITIES WRATH. LET THE SKIES BOIL, LET THE STARS FALL, NOTHING SHALL SAVE YOU FROM OUR FURY!” -Grand Marshall Sidney Beuclair, Head of the Commonwealth of Man. Message to the Panspecial Trade Union a declaring war after diplomatic relations broke down over an economic sanction.
We shall fear no more as we stand as one. We are no the strongest , we are not the most intelligent. But we are the unexpected , we are the inevitable. Let the them fear once more as they will be the path to our the peak of the universe.
"I no longer agree to your terms , YOU will agree to mine". I don't know why but that message resonates way more deeply with me than it probably should. Edit: "Mom, I'm almost famous now." Seriously though, thanks everyone. Was not expecting to get even close to this many likes.
same. my guess is that it plays on the 'rise up against evil oppressor" narrative that's so easily woven into stories and propaganda throughout history. It's definitely effective for a reason...
I've never played Stellaris, but if there's one impulse that all strategy game players will understand, it's the willingness to set the world on fire over a petty trade dispute.
Hah, u'r right, mate! Thats how our pharmacy megacorp works! "When leader of new customer base refuses from our contract - means we have to change their leader. For customers bright future, of course."
aliens staring at the 1.9 million fleet power in their homeworld's sky 0.0000000000000393 seconds after they decided a diplomatic insult would be the best course of action:
If this was a show we could be following a small group of people just trying to survive in this galaxy. Galaxy could be in a medium to late game state where a lot of unions, alliances and politics are in place. Everyone is strong enough to refrain from starting a war. Our group of people could be refugees, mercs, Profiteers, you name it. As long as they are *not* bound to a nation and have different backgrounds it can work. The problem isnt the scale. Its the destination. Expanse works because the main cast are detrimantal on the story. Their actions shape the universe they're in directly. In this setting our cast would be perfect to show new worlds, thrown into new conflicts (whether politic or more aggresively), discover new anomalies. BUT, They absolutely would have no control over the destination the story is heading towards. Which would likely receive a bad reviews due to the fact that ''there is no point''. While the problem of scale can easly be avoided, Problem of destination cant be. We can try to focus on the smaller goals and destinations for our cast, but that in return would create an ''Overlord'' syndrome. Where side characters and the world is so rich, Following the main cast feels boring or a waste of time. Unfortunately this is why Stellaris cant be written as a show. I'd like to converse the counterpoints you fellas might have though!
The resolution of a personal journey can be contrasted with large scale disaster and death and ultimate failure. Character X finally reconciling with character Y, character Z avenging character W, etc. can all happen and be satisfying regardless of whether the world they're on gets flooded by an aquatic juggernaut, or bombarded by a spiritualist fallen empire for some unseen heresey thousands of light-years away, or turned to a machine world by the contingency, etc. It is rarely the setting that actually makes or breaks these shows, it's the character writing, and that's the main reason why.
@@scrambo6182 True, but compared to the setting we are going to be in (A galaxy full of completely different species, ideologies, goals and ancient pasts) our main cast may feel too insignificant to the viewer. In Stellaris universe, majority of the important decisions are made by scientists and rulers. If we are following a rag tag group doing their own things, we sacrifice that deep perspective for broader representation in the Stellaris universe. We can always follow a Scientist doing some research about shroud, or a classic General/Admiral having to make tough choices. However we would sacrifice one of the strongests aspects of Stellaris and risk turning it into a another space Sci-fi show. Following a ruler might come off as too boring as its going to be politics 70% of the time and Stellaris has more to offer than just politics, ESPECIALLY if we are watching it. IF we are going to use a small group as initially suggested, we would need a destination. Mass Effect worked because Shepard had a goal from the start that did not change; Kill the Reapers. He had many side adventures during this but in the end they did not alter his goal. Reverse Flash from The Flash *In season one* worked because he had one goal: Going home. After failing that, his goal kept changing and changing which annoyed some fans and frankly got overused for every plot thread show needed. We would require a simple but hard goal for such a group to accomplish, regardless of the world they're in *without* compremising the settings or enviorament of the show. This goal also has to be something either respectible by the audiance, or outright defiant. It cant be ''getting rich'' because majority of the dangerous tasks they perform will be seen as caused by their greed. It also cant be ''saving the galaxy'' because our group *has* to stay small and stay true to Stellaris. We cant have a space Avengers going around stopping Unbidden. Of course characters can have their side desires, but the overall group as a unit has to have a common goal that is simple, hard to reach *but* isnt impossible without plot devices. Any suggestions?
@@Kronosfobi Rogue One is a great example - an important operation that turns the tide in a war that isn't shown beginning or ending in the movie itself, but nonetheless the characters' journeys feel resolved.
I think you might be overthinking it a bit, you could make the show in the same story style as Game of thrones with the many characters in a wide array of places with there own goals and ambitions interweaving their stories while having a Mass Effect like over riding plot, the galaxy is a cycle of growth and destruction and the characters can go from researching the precursors to realizing an endgame Armageddon in coming to forming a coherent force to confront the endgame crisis. Having the perspective of multiple people in various roles inside a few important empires would give a great perspective to view the unfolding of the story. Honestly this video was just fantastic and it worked so well because it left alot unexplained and aloud or minds to best fill in the gaps with our own head canon that we like the most, I believe Hayao Miyazaki uses the same style for his success. The creator that directed this video is a true artist and my hat goes off to them, they have brought me a new found respect for directing.
@@miyelir What you said *can* be done, but like I mentioned its extremely hard to pull off. Especially if you have more main characters to follow. Mass Effect worked because it had a simple objective, a singular story line with sidequests occasionally coming along. And its a game. In movie or show format even Mass Effect would suffer. Plus, Mass Effect not only follows a single character instead of multiple like you suggested, but also has the huge advantage of ''choice'' as a game. Movie or Show wouldnt have that advantage. This video *is* fantastic, but wouldnt work in a format of a show or movie. Which is why Im asking for possible scenerios you fellas think might work. Likely there may be things Im completely missing out.
So, you have no imagination, you condemn enjoyment of fiction, and I should personally kill you with my bare hands? Does that about cover it, Lord Mortos?
thats why Stellaris is so much fun i still remember the first time i found a lost colony Humanity. They was vassalized by an advance star empire. my entire game's play style and perspective changed, from my typical tech-up bulk up conquer and weather the 10X crisis, to subterfuge and playing diplomacy ranging from making the overlord to release the Human Lost colony to inciting uprising and independence wars. I felt so betrayed when the Overlord declared war on me and the Lost Colony was siding with their overlord. and i felt even sadder when the Contingency came, half of the Lost Colony was consumed and i couldn't save more of the wayward bloodkin.
Interesting enough you can have a leader survive the entire game if you take the much maligned longevity trait and research advances fast enough to buy them more time and eventually immortality.
Stellaris is the space opera, strategy game from Paradox Interactive. They make Hearts Of Iron. Stellaris easier to begin, than other Paradox games, but it really interesting. I recommend it. Sorry for my English, it's my second language.
@@cranom5616 Basically a 4x strategy game where you create a interstellar empire and customize your species. After that you begin to build an economy, conduct diplomacy with other aliens you meet, conduct espionage to prepare for war, go to war, send exploration vessels and the like.
I have a memory of a old stellaris playthrough where I was planning to colonize a planet that had some valuable resources but there was some kind of anomaly about it. I put an outpost nearby it I kept getting reports of seismic activity from the planet that kept getting worse and worse. This planet eventually cracked and a space dragon came out so yeah I was genuinely surprised.
I solemnly swear to devote my life and ability in the defense of the United Nations of Earth, to defend the constitution of man, and to further the universal rights of all sentient life, from the depths of the Pacific, to the edge of the galaxy, for as long as I shall live. bro that oath goes so hard
Reguarding a show about Stellaris, I don't know how soon that will come, but I can tell you that a few of my friends and I plan to write one or more books and a general series of events based on what may have been one of, if not THE best Stellaris game ever, with its fair share of political turmoil, economic strife and success, scientific endeavor, and awe inspiring battles. The best example would probably be the Campaign against the Corronian Dominance, an empire of magic wielding skeletoids (led by skeletor of all people) residing on a single planet that they managed to turn into the greatest threat to the entire galaxy using said magic, who were eventually defeated by what may be the largest fleet of ships ever amassed in Stellaris, with ships from almost every empire coming to take part. And not just military and private defense groups, but even traders and mining vessels from even the most backwater parts of the galaxy with each ship only having maybe a few weapons for defense purposes. People of all species and empires came together and set aside their differences to defeat a terrifying foe that was greater than any Empire's entire navy individually. It was possibly The Most Honorable Battle in all of Sci Fi.
@@battadia Not written much yet, but we've been compiling lore and the general consensus for the first book we'd write is an in-universe autobiography of a spacefighter pilot similar to Saburō Sakai's "Samurai!", with said samurai having took part in the aforementioned 'Most Honorable Battle'. I also would maybe like to do a comic series centered around the pilot, one that would show more detail of the events and stuff from the perspective of his squadmates and the crew of the carrier ship his squad is assigned to. I don't know if anything will come to fruition, my friends and I often either don't have the time or drive to write much, but I hope that something can be made of it eventually.
this is simply fantastic, it encapsulates perfectly the feeling of dread, pride, hatred and honor of the civilizations, also the order of the shots makes so much sense, thank you for this, had real goosebumps watching it
Tbh this is basically my stellaris game rn at this point everyone has 50k+ fleet power and everyone hates each other and powerblocks have essentially solidified. The eastern part of the galaxy is mostly neglected none of the nations there are strong they all are weak and they are constantly at war with each other but even now they are all being unified to my powerblock cause i need literally every nation possible to counter my enemies. My nation is basically the haven for dead species as well because whenever a species falls they retreat to me due to me having the most open boarders in the galaxy and the most open boarders(and probably the most promising jobs) compared to the rest of the galaxy. My situation is relatively tense even though my defenses are basically impenetrable i cant push my enemies back cause my enemies just seem to have endless alloys somehow. Eitherway stellaris is always tense and exciting.
The flow of this edit. The sound effects and blending. My ears... my eyes... unbelievable. Great job dude, this legit looks and sounds like a high level movie trailer
As strife breeds unity, neglect breed resentment. Be the source of both, and be afraid. For there is no greater drive to innovation than a common enemy. Look down on a civilization for long enough, and you'll find them staring back with hatred. Look down on them still, and watch them drag you down.
I imagine a show where each season focuses on a different empire progressing through the stages of the game. A fledgling barely space-travelling race season one exploring the galaxy, making contact, and discovering anomalies, focusing on the scientists and leaders of that civilization. season two the rise of a focused character to power and subsequent rise of a superpower in the galaxy. Season 3 the bitter struggle of an empire in decline, beset on all sides by enemies and eventually destroyed, etc. All one continuous story of the galaxy up to the crisis and the banding together of many of the empires seen before, possibly all against one that we've seen the perspective of, with descendants of the characters we first saw (or the first characters themselves in cases of immortal or long-lived species.) Unfortunately that is never gonna happen because it would be way too much of an undertaking and there's probably not anyone skilled enough to write it well in the first place. There's definitely someone who could make a sweet book series out of it though.
The templin institute is a really good channel with their stellaris invictus series, creating a narrative to go along with the streams they do. Really brings you into the world.
This reminded me of one playthrough I had where I made a federation and called it the galactic republic (There were only 5 empires in the entire game and 2 of them were fanatic purifiers so we didnt have th galactic community.) When I united the 3 empires that didnt want to kill everything we had about 20 years of peace. Then the fallen empires got a bit angry at us and for the next 80-100 years it was just billions upon billions of Fallen empire and galactic republic citizens dying to collosi, bombardment, invasions, etc. I tried to play nice as well and had rules of war and evrything until the FE cracked a core world and then it turned into who had more worlds because sooner or later one of us was going to run out of citizens. I wrote down every battle, major event, and war during this 80-100 years in-game and I learned only that stellaris simulated the domino effect very well.
Thinking about playing stellaris: This video Actually playing stellaris: "Oh. They just closed their borders to us. Aren't you on the other side of the galaxy?" "Is that the pretho- nope that's just a locust swarm" "Wait, I have to vote in the galactic community?" "Oh, they just opened their borders to us again."
@bartdr5146 yes me ! I need exotic gas for my defence fleet ! what do you need ? How many credits do you need ? I got a production of 653 credits monthly
Bra-fucking-vo Bra-fucking-vo Job well done isn't enough The music is right The timing is right The insurmental amount of time spent to get this done. Is isnae. Ty DarkIdeas
Would be interesting to see a show where the human civilization starts off peaceful and curious and progressively gets hostile and dangerous as the show goes on, leaving the finale between the last coalition of alien species vs a vast, genocidal, xenophobic, human empire
@@corbanbausch9049 I mean yea but in 40k its less "lets explore the galaxy and make new friends, later uh oh it its screwed up lets kill them all" and more "Lets kill them all already"
@@corbanbausch9049 If You mean Tau then maybe. The fuckers even trusted Drukharii at one point. But humanity hell no, they were always xenophobic, at best they had non-aggression pacts with Xenos they couldn't enslave/exterminate during DAoT. And if You mean the great crusade then oh boi. Not even other human civilizations were safe from the start. And it backfired so horrendously that humanity is now doomed if nothing changes.
I mean, it would be interesting to see a show where the aliens push and take advantage of the humans to such an extent that their naivety is shattered and they respond with total war, like what is shown in this video.
The Stellaris game I enjoyed most was when I was playing as the United Nations of Earth. I was nearing 2400 and the crisis spawn, and then the second biggest empire in the galaxy declared war on me (I was the biggest), went to Sol and cracked Earth. That empire and its people were all gone by the time the crisis spawned.
This video was amazingly well done, and elicits memories of some of my most favorite playthroughs. I often like to think of my campaigns in a written narrative as events have happened or after they've passed, and this video accomplishes that feeling so easily. I remember playing as a human imperium that was *genuinely* trying to better the galaxy and not be a xenophobe. I wasn't even mass-conquering, I was trying to unite via federations and diplomacy, but everyone and their mother hated me for one treaty or another I had with another individual, or my ideologies. At the end of the day, the only loyal nation to me was one that I raised from Pre-FTL to the galactic stage. My race become psionic, and eventually they became psionic from being in close proximity to my race(They were Vassals). They had fought alongside me against these snail aliens with huge squidward noses that were just NOT giving me a chance to prepare the galaxy for the coming crisis. After long wars from them, and then an Avian race of xenophobes, my personality with my empire gradually became one of an optimist to a bitter pragmatist. Even still, in these dark times, my vassal stood by me loyally, staunchly, even when my fleet power became low, when vassals at the time would quickly deteriorate in loyalty if your military hit rock bottom from a lost war. We had been through nearly 250 years together, creating a solid base of imperial space near the core of the galaxy. And then the Prethoryn Scourge invaded, and along with my enemies, 75% of my empire, including 4 core worlds with max population, they ate my vassals. All of them. They went extinct. This campaign was started a few days after the apocalypse dlc was purchased by me, and I made extensive, enraged use of super weapons and mega structures in a tiny corner system -My last vanguard against the scourge that was otherwise gonna make me lose the game-, and I scoured them from the face of my galaxy with atomic fire and durasteel. I enslaved one of their queens and used them to fight against their own kin, and during all this, the rest of the galaxy sat quietly, content just to watch as I was being devoured by the Scourge, not offering to help join the fight. I was the sole target being attacked at the time, the entire focus of the scourge, so the rest of the galaxy was largely untouched save for my enemies who were eaten at the beginning, and my vassal. Despite losing most of my territory, I ended up winning the crisis BY MYSELF, and incinerating the infestation to the last. On top of it all, my Total War policies adopted just to make sure my civilization survives this holocaust ended up making me go from Xenophilic, materialist, and militarist to Fanatic Militarist, and Authoritarian, along with changing civics to Esteemed Admiralty, and the Supremacy policy. I came out stronger than I was before the crisis, and proceeded to turn to the rest of the galaxy that left me and my beloved vassal for dead, and I made sure that each and every one of those passive, bystander bastards paid tribute to MY galactic empire within the next few decades.
@@carteradams43 thanks for taking the time to read it! It was one of my all time favorite playthroughs, simply because of how dramatic it felt. I have not had such a loyal vassal since that playthrough. All others were treacherous punks that had to be kept in line.
If you close your eyes and listen to this it sounds like it could work for a 40k trailer. Also enything that isn't human and is sentient should stop to exist
thank you all for the kind comments, really appreciate it.
It is straight up criminal that this doesn't have a million views
"kind comments"
Half of us want to Exterminatus xenos and the other half want to watch😷
Maybe try to do something else on the theme of Stellaris? Several updates have been released and the video material has been increased.
@@joaop4585 he's just so happy that we want to help get rid of the xeno scum from our beautiful human only galaxy
I love it good job
That moment you forgot you left your fleet on unrestricted bombardment.
"forgot"
riiiiiight.... I "forgot" about that LUL
so i shouldn't be doing that then?
@@lbfourtwenty4163 yeah, you should be using Armageddon stance to incinerate your enemies
@@lbfourtwenty4163 depends if you want the planet or not
Oh I didn't forget... *laughs in fanatic xenophobe*
I really identified with that one guy who blew up a planet because he was sanctioned
First control the Senate, then the galaxy. They cant sanction you if they are dead, and its not a warcrime if you leave no witnessess. - Emperor Palpatine (at least in my head)
Authoritarian militarists when:
Bingo
@@Covid--xs3yk egalitarian militarists when they realise death is the greatest equalizer:
I realized that my vassals who were in the galactic community did get sanctioned because they had a collosus.
therefore I chise to end the galactic community myself
“When a dispute about territories turns into a galactic genocide” The GAME
Border friction? Guess it’s time for a war of extermination then
Kind of funny that people complain about how violent Cod and other games are. Then there is stellaris, a game not so many people know about, where you do a galactic genocide because someone killed your pet
@@AnonimatosTM well don't kill pets... Had john wick and Doom not tought you anything
@@AnonimatosTM Or turn an entire species into livestock at space McDonalds because their species portrait looks ugly
@@mememachine4095 the traditional "DingDong your race is wrong" run. Classic
My girlfriend always sees me staring at a map when I play this game.
What I see in my mind as I play:
+ 😂😂😂
Same
Genuinely
I named one of my leaders for her and she suddenly got invested and wanted to know what her character was doing and why and eventually she was demanding I enslave some cuter xenos as pets in her sector
@@cpob2013 💀 Got a character and suddenly the nerd in her awakened and did the most Warhammar40K thing!😂😂
(Minus the whole Xenophobia thing)
"From the skies of terra to the galactic rim, let the seas boil, let the stars fall. Thought it takes the last drop of my blood!"
What's that a quote from?
@@leakingamps2050 Warhammer 40k. The Horus Heresy trailer .
"LET. THE. GALAXY. BURN!" -Warmaster Horus
i would see the galaxy free once more!
if i cannot save it from your failure father...
THEM LET THE GALAXY BURN!
Hold up... that's herecy!
Following the pledge of the UNE with the bomb of "Your world will fail" hits unreasonably hard
"and to further the universal rights of all sapient life"
Almost made me shed a tear it did
@@carteradams43Rights? Sapient life?
Preposterous. We all know that xenos must be purged.
@andreadeluca9742 Ok? You may find it boring but I find it fun to consume the galaxy and purge all sapient life.
@andreadeluca9742 What meme. I was just saying that xenos must be purged.
It's often said that if your playing as Humans in Stellaris you start out trying to be like the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek and by the end of your game end up like The Imperium of Man from 40k.
I started out the opposite way, Unbidden tend to have that effect on the entire galaxy lol
Well when you try to make the Galaxy play nice, but then then an empire defeats you in a war and cracks Earth, you tend to seek revenge on the Galaxy at Large for its treacherous acts
I started as the Imperium, and I ended as the Imperium. When the Unbidden invaded and I owned a third of a very large galaxy, did I worry? No. I continued my campaigns of genocide against my neighbors. When the Unbidden reached my borders and it turned out that my ships were very poorly optimized to fight them, did I pull the fleets back to retrofit them? Roll out new designs? Do literally anything at all to reduce losses? No. I proceeded to drown them in ships and the vastness of my empire allowed me to be able to tank those losses and keep going until I won.
@Elysian Kentarchy thats literally when the economic powerhouse and the big brain science bois get into a war with eachother in a game
The emperor protects brother, you don't need better guns just more of the Faithfull to pull the trigger
„Everything will be okay“
Did someone order a large armageddon bombardment ?
Oh would you look at the time! This planet is over due a good dose of genocide. Just skip the Javorian Pox indiscriminate bombardment and get straight to the Cracker!
@@cullenpinney2997 oh you wanted a planet cracker!
chief i though you wanted to collapse the black at the center of our galaxy ma bad chief
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I remember doing a pacifist run. I only had about 7 systems or and was able to repair a ring world putting all my resources into it.
Every economy boomed until a nation declared war on me. I was too late and my terra blew up, ive never cracked so many planets in one run.
They should have known not to Mess with Our Planets xD
@thetypicalweed6770 Just like US. Don't touch our fucking boats. Except for UNE it is don't touch our fucking planets.
galactic community next day 5:00 PM wgt (Western Galaxy Time) discussing why the hell the pacifists had world cracking tech
Damn, you were the Fallen Empire that day
@@YangHajime FAFO
Every time you start up Stellaris and create a new galaxy, whether that galaxy be populated by randomly generated Empire, or Empires you made, it is a new story. One where you let your imagination fill in the blanks.
And what ever civic you choose it will end with war hammer 40k galaxy
@@nguyenhoang9410 Nah mine ends in utopian liberal social democracy and so on
@@chengzhou8711 until some one become a crisis or crisis took over the galaxy man... So ... Basicly you have to fight with xenos , necron , tyranid or chaos . And if you can active war in heaven chain it will more wholesome
@@nguyenhoang9410 Crisis? No problem. Snowballing is easiest in this game and tech rush always reigns supreme
@@chengzhou8711 yeah . But the point is whole galaxy is in war and it is war hamer 40k ( not aggressive as WH40k mod but still ) .
“You Aliens learned a very very Important lesson today. You should’ve killed us all when you had the chance”
is this from that one short story from the collection "Beyond the aquilla rift"? The story with the avians?
@@sneedandfeedandseedcan’t be. Those alien(s) didn’t really speak to him.
AVE IMPERATOR
That's what Grand Admiral difficulty feels like. Super weak at first but eventually you become a menace late game if you survive
I wish that we could actually see our people, our cities, our planets in Stellaris. Instead of just playing on a map, I wish we could actually see the life in our empire and see what impacts our decisions are having.
maybe will get update like that in the future or a really amazing modders who mod that in.
I'm pretty sure that if we had that in the game it will laggy as all hell
Would need to make a whole new game lol stellaris is aging as it is and game gets slower with every update and dlc
You can, its called your imagination :)
@@solidsnake6206 id buy a 2nd stellaris in a heartbeat
This is the best stellaris trailer ive seen. This should be the original. Its so good
FR
4:32 Unemploment drops to 0%
Also Overpopulation....and World Hunger.
@@tigersebelas well as corporate greed, overpriced products…
"you can't say you blew up the planet to fix unemployment... The rate of everything drops to 0"
@@user-sq5mr8ut1oRussianbadger
This really makes me wish for some sort of Arcane-like Stellaris series
And this also makes me feel something for my citizens a little bit.
Citizens:i only want to live in peace D:
me: silence!
me: you are only a resource to me :)
*proceeds to sell his population in to the galactic Slave market*
@@ivanelias3916 knock knock. Some alien parasite would like a word
@@ivanelias3916 my dudes are in peace I literally made them immortal and created humongous fleets with tons of power I didn’t conquer at the beginning much I just started researching and evolving my people
@@ivanelias3916me:Makes them all militaristic and authoritarian
That is immediately what I thought of during this video. It has an Arcane feel to it.
"They younger Generations fault us for Purging the Galaxy of Prikkiti."
"They are just cute Geckos!"
"They say. They have never been to the Camps, they have never been to the Ovens. There are no Graves. There is only Ash. Its not retribution. Its paying them in kind."
And we made sure they paid interest on it too.
Some random race takes a planet I wanted.
My fleet appearing over their homeworld:
"We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects."
Ave imperator, cog-bro
The Emporer Protects
I didn't realize how much I -want- *NEED* a Stellaris animated series
I can imagine 2 grand empires who got wronged by their federations, allying to dominate and purge the galaxy, and the galactic community electing the humans as custodians and uniting against the common survival, and to think this is totally possible in game, damn I love Stellaris
You mean a War in Heaven minus the two empires against one another?
@@roulo5516basically war in heaven but The Old One already create Human as contingency protocol against many sh!t in galaxy, making an emperor class human as the leader and blank psycher to be their executioner
Be a small civilization.
Find ton of exotic gas.
Galactic council formed.
Bribe everybody with exotic gas.
Become custodian.
Bribe everybody with more gas.
Declare galactic empire. Become emperor.
Bribe everybody with even more exotic gas.
Disband council.
Then you pass a law that forbids all wars. And it works.
You're a race of space squirrels ruling galactic empire. Approval ratings sky high.
On anniversary of your coronation day, you address the empire and ask: "Hey. We always wanted to know. What did you even need all that gas for?".
Humans turn into Space Orks that proceed to turn on the galaxy like the great Timurid & Mongolian Hordes of old.
@@TheNapster153 Or becoming the Imperium of Man when they become the Galactic Imperium like in the Stellaris scenario.
“From the dense core of the galaxy to the most remote star systems, until our terms are met, YOU WILL KNOW HUMANITIES WRATH. LET THE SKIES BOIL, LET THE STARS FALL, NOTHING SHALL SAVE YOU FROM OUR FURY!”
-Grand Marshall Sidney Beuclair, Head of the Commonwealth of Man. Message to the Panspecial Trade Union a declaring war after diplomatic relations broke down over an economic sanction.
Horus?
@@stuarthill794his nicer clone, Suroh
"We've all run the simulations. They are tough, but they ain't invincible"
- Sargent Major Avery Johnson
Average Horus enjoyer
We shall fear no more as we stand as one. We are no the strongest , we are not the most intelligent. But we are the unexpected , we are the inevitable. Let the them fear once more as they will be the path to our the peak of the universe.
"I no longer agree to your terms ,
YOU will agree to mine".
I don't know why but that message resonates way more deeply with me than it probably should.
Edit: "Mom, I'm almost famous now."
Seriously though, thanks everyone. Was not expecting to get even close to this many likes.
Me with superior fleet power:
That's what we think when beating a fallen Empire
same. my guess is that it plays on the 'rise up against evil oppressor" narrative that's so easily woven into stories and propaganda throughout history. It's definitely effective for a reason...
it’s not tax evasion, it’s tax refusal.
@@sirshotty7689 Ah.....George Washington would be proud my son.
I've never played Stellaris, but if there's one impulse that all strategy game players will understand, it's the willingness to set the world on fire over a petty trade dispute.
Hah, u'r right, mate! Thats how our pharmacy megacorp works! "When leader of new customer base refuses from our contract - means we have to change their leader. For customers bright future, of course."
In this case, it's the galaxy
aliens staring at the 1.9 million fleet power in their homeworld's sky 0.0000000000000393 seconds after they decided a diplomatic insult would be the best course of action:
Most people don't like leaving an RPG shop without clearing them of supplies and money as is lmao.
From the depths of the Pacific, to the edge of the galaxy. For as long as I live.
I love it, so epic, really captures the feel of the game, excellent work.
Dude this GMV game me chills when he said,"From now on I will not agree to your terms, you will agree to mine."
Aaaaand now I’m making an empire out of this. Thx
How like ik it can be done but it’s not gonna be easy
@@trellanaxoxo nothing ever worth it is
@@swivelshivel6576 playing stellaris in the first place isnt worrh it
@@GlizzyGoblin757 it's worth it, you just lack imagination
I feel like I already have made games made based off this story. :D
If this was a show we could be following a small group of people just trying to survive in this galaxy.
Galaxy could be in a medium to late game state where a lot of unions, alliances and politics are in place. Everyone is strong enough to refrain from starting a war.
Our group of people could be refugees, mercs, Profiteers, you name it. As long as they are *not* bound to a nation and have different backgrounds it can work.
The problem isnt the scale. Its the destination.
Expanse works because the main cast are detrimantal on the story. Their actions shape the universe they're in directly.
In this setting our cast would be perfect to show new worlds, thrown into new conflicts (whether politic or more aggresively), discover new anomalies.
BUT, They absolutely would have no control over the destination the story is heading towards.
Which would likely receive a bad reviews due to the fact that ''there is no point''.
While the problem of scale can easly be avoided, Problem of destination cant be.
We can try to focus on the smaller goals and destinations for our cast, but that in return would create an ''Overlord'' syndrome. Where side characters and the world is so rich, Following the main cast feels boring or a waste of time.
Unfortunately this is why Stellaris cant be written as a show.
I'd like to converse the counterpoints you fellas might have though!
The resolution of a personal journey can be contrasted with large scale disaster and death and ultimate failure. Character X finally reconciling with character Y, character Z avenging character W, etc. can all happen and be satisfying regardless of whether the world they're on gets flooded by an aquatic juggernaut, or bombarded by a spiritualist fallen empire for some unseen heresey thousands of light-years away, or turned to a machine world by the contingency, etc.
It is rarely the setting that actually makes or breaks these shows, it's the character writing, and that's the main reason why.
@@scrambo6182 True, but compared to the setting we are going to be in (A galaxy full of completely different species, ideologies, goals and ancient pasts) our main cast may feel too insignificant to the viewer.
In Stellaris universe, majority of the important decisions are made by scientists and rulers.
If we are following a rag tag group doing their own things, we sacrifice that deep perspective for broader representation in the Stellaris universe.
We can always follow a Scientist doing some research about shroud, or a classic General/Admiral having to make tough choices. However we would sacrifice one of the strongests aspects of Stellaris and risk turning it into a another space Sci-fi show.
Following a ruler might come off as too boring as its going to be politics 70% of the time and Stellaris has more to offer than just politics, ESPECIALLY if we are watching it.
IF we are going to use a small group as initially suggested, we would need a destination.
Mass Effect worked because Shepard had a goal from the start that did not change; Kill the Reapers.
He had many side adventures during this but in the end they did not alter his goal.
Reverse Flash from The Flash *In season one* worked because he had one goal: Going home.
After failing that, his goal kept changing and changing which annoyed some fans and frankly got overused for every plot thread show needed.
We would require a simple but hard goal for such a group to accomplish, regardless of the world they're in *without* compremising the settings or enviorament of the show.
This goal also has to be something either respectible by the audiance, or outright defiant. It cant be ''getting rich'' because majority of the dangerous tasks they perform will be seen as caused by their greed.
It also cant be ''saving the galaxy'' because our group *has* to stay small and stay true to Stellaris. We cant have a space Avengers going around stopping Unbidden.
Of course characters can have their side desires, but the overall group as a unit has to have a common goal that is simple, hard to reach *but* isnt impossible without plot devices.
Any suggestions?
@@Kronosfobi Rogue One is a great example - an important operation that turns the tide in a war that isn't shown beginning or ending in the movie itself, but nonetheless the characters' journeys feel resolved.
I think you might be overthinking it a bit, you could make the show in the same story style as Game of thrones with the many characters in a wide array of places with there own goals and ambitions interweaving their stories while having a Mass Effect like over riding plot, the galaxy is a cycle of growth and destruction and the characters can go from researching the precursors to realizing an endgame Armageddon in coming to forming a coherent force to confront the endgame crisis.
Having the perspective of multiple people in various roles inside a few important empires would give a great perspective to view the unfolding of the story.
Honestly this video was just fantastic and it worked so well because it left alot unexplained and aloud or minds to best fill in the gaps with our own head canon that we like the most, I believe Hayao Miyazaki uses the same style for his success. The creator that directed this video is a true artist and my hat goes off to them, they have brought me a new found respect for directing.
@@miyelir What you said *can* be done, but like I mentioned its extremely hard to pull off.
Especially if you have more main characters to follow.
Mass Effect worked because it had a simple objective, a singular story line with sidequests occasionally coming along. And its a game. In movie or show format even Mass Effect would suffer.
Plus, Mass Effect not only follows a single character instead of multiple like you suggested, but also has the huge advantage of ''choice'' as a game.
Movie or Show wouldnt have that advantage.
This video *is* fantastic, but wouldnt work in a format of a show or movie.
Which is why Im asking for possible scenerios you fellas think might work. Likely there may be things Im completely missing out.
The game dosent really have this kind of gravity or intensity. The only story in stellaris is the one in your head.
i guess that's the magic of it.
That’s the point
So, you have no imagination, you condemn enjoyment of fiction, and I should personally kill you with my bare hands? Does that about cover it, Lord Mortos?
So what you're saying is that your imagination isn't up to the task.
thats why Stellaris is so much fun
i still remember the first time i found a lost colony Humanity. They was vassalized by an advance star empire. my entire game's play style and perspective changed, from my typical tech-up bulk up conquer and weather the 10X crisis, to subterfuge and playing diplomacy ranging from making the overlord to release the Human Lost colony to inciting uprising and independence wars. I felt so betrayed when the Overlord declared war on me and the Lost Colony was siding with their overlord. and i felt even sadder when the Contingency came, half of the Lost Colony was consumed and i couldn't save more of the wayward bloodkin.
Stellaris takes place over hundreds of years. It is difficult to have main characters when you have a time scale like that.
Interesting enough you can have a leader survive the entire game if you take the much maligned longevity trait and research advances fast enough to buy them more time and eventually immortality.
Make the protagonist a lithoid or a machine drone lol
@AshTheFlash100 mine is the same but we're the Ai voice that we select at the start
A new main character every season each season is 100 years total 10 seasons
in one of my runs i had my entire race become super psychics that lived for somewhere around 800 years
Les friction is such a good fit for Stellaris, I've waited for this for so long
this was so fucking well produced. gave me goosebumps. now if only they would make an actual stellaris show we could all watch 🤔
amazing work, I've been inspired to write sci-fi shorts again because of this
Stellaris trailer compilations are fun.
I don't know what Stellaris is, but this video was one hell of intruduction that i will never forget.
Stellaris is the space opera, strategy game from Paradox Interactive. They make Hearts Of Iron. Stellaris easier to begin, than other Paradox games, but it really interesting. I recommend it. Sorry for my English, it's my second language.
@@Аноним-у6г
Thank you for the information!. Your English is good lol, it’s also my second language
@@cranom5616 Basically a 4x strategy game where you create a interstellar empire and customize your species. After that you begin to build an economy, conduct diplomacy with other aliens you meet, conduct espionage to prepare for war, go to war, send exploration vessels and the like.
@@andrewyoung8550 err you can also commit mass genocide
@@cranom5616 "thank you for the information!"
Last word before his true emotion start to show
This is actually really well made. Well done!
It’s so good you almost forget that it’s about a game that consists almost entirely of just menus
Yeah I legit wish that this game was like a space rpg, helldiver, Star citizen game
Paradox map games are just that addictive
Damn I got goosebumps from this.
Megacorp is now a branch of the Imperium's minister of commerce... How low have they became...
I have a memory of a old stellaris playthrough where I was planning to colonize a planet that had some valuable resources but there was some kind of anomaly about it. I put an outpost nearby it I kept getting reports of seismic activity from the planet that kept getting worse and worse. This planet eventually cracked and a space dragon came out so yeah I was genuinely surprised.
Shout out to your gut feeling overcoming your need for greed.
We need a new scifi series of this quality like asap
4:42 shows so much emotion for a 2 second clip
Came back to watch this after work/ why must you make me wish a stellaris shorts type thing was available
I solemnly swear to devote my life and ability in the defense of the United Nations of Earth, to defend the constitution of man, and to further the universal rights of all sentient life, from the depths of the Pacific, to the edge of the galaxy, for as long as I shall live. bro that oath goes so hard
How does this not have millions of views
2:50 it really be like that just cause you do a little genocide.
"Your world will fail."
-me testing a colossus ship on a pre-ftl in the iron age
Reguarding a show about Stellaris, I don't know how soon that will come, but I can tell you that a few of my friends and I plan to write one or more books and a general series of events based on what may have been one of, if not THE best Stellaris game ever, with its fair share of political turmoil, economic strife and success, scientific endeavor, and awe inspiring battles.
The best example would probably be the Campaign against the Corronian Dominance, an empire of magic wielding skeletoids (led by skeletor of all people) residing on a single planet that they managed to turn into the greatest threat to the entire galaxy using said magic, who were eventually defeated by what may be the largest fleet of ships ever amassed in Stellaris, with ships from almost every empire coming to take part. And not just military and private defense groups, but even traders and mining vessels from even the most backwater parts of the galaxy with each ship only having maybe a few weapons for defense purposes. People of all species and empires came together and set aside their differences to defeat a terrifying foe that was greater than any Empire's entire navy individually. It was possibly The Most Honorable Battle in all of Sci Fi.
BEGINNING TODAY, WE STAND AS ONE!
That’s dope dude. Do it, I’ll buy a copy.
Any updates?
@@battadia Not written much yet, but we've been compiling lore and the general consensus for the first book we'd write is an in-universe autobiography of a spacefighter pilot similar to Saburō Sakai's "Samurai!", with said samurai having took part in the aforementioned 'Most Honorable Battle'.
I also would maybe like to do a comic series centered around the pilot, one that would show more detail of the events and stuff from the perspective of his squadmates and the crew of the carrier ship his squad is assigned to.
I don't know if anything will come to fruition, my friends and I often either don't have the time or drive to write much, but I hope that something can be made of it eventually.
@@toothpickprovider2614 That sounds great, good luck!
this is simply fantastic, it encapsulates perfectly the feeling of dread, pride, hatred and honor of the civilizations, also the order of the shots makes so much sense, thank you for this, had real goosebumps watching it
I swear, this needs to be the official trailer of stellaris it does a much better job at making me want to play the game then the current one.
"I've seen it before, I've seen it began-"
"You'll make no changes, and no blood will end."
Tbh this is basically my stellaris game rn at this point everyone has 50k+ fleet power and everyone hates each other and powerblocks have essentially solidified. The eastern part of the galaxy is mostly neglected none of the nations there are strong they all are weak and they are constantly at war with each other but even now they are all being unified to my powerblock cause i need literally every nation possible to counter my enemies. My nation is basically the haven for dead species as well because whenever a species falls they retreat to me due to me having the most open boarders in the galaxy and the most open boarders(and probably the most promising jobs) compared to the rest of the galaxy. My situation is relatively tense even though my defenses are basically impenetrable i cant push my enemies back cause my enemies just seem to have endless alloys somehow. Eitherway stellaris is always tense and exciting.
"Wow this galaxy looks great!"
Me, the devouring swarm they forgot about:
Honestly i believe that Stellaris has so much Stuff one could make Animated Cutscenes from.
So many Possibilities.
The flow of this edit. The sound effects and blending. My ears... my eyes... unbelievable. Great job dude, this legit looks and sounds like a high level movie trailer
As strife breeds unity, neglect breed resentment.
Be the source of both, and be afraid. For there is no greater drive to innovation than a common enemy.
Look down on a civilization for long enough, and you'll find them staring back with hatred. Look down on them still, and watch them drag you down.
"War is coming,
with all it's glory,
and all it's horror..."
I imagine a show where each season focuses on a different empire progressing through the stages of the game. A fledgling barely space-travelling race season one exploring the galaxy, making contact, and discovering anomalies, focusing on the scientists and leaders of that civilization. season two the rise of a focused character to power and subsequent rise of a superpower in the galaxy. Season 3 the bitter struggle of an empire in decline, beset on all sides by enemies and eventually destroyed, etc. All one continuous story of the galaxy up to the crisis and the banding together of many of the empires seen before, possibly all against one that we've seen the perspective of, with descendants of the characters we first saw (or the first characters themselves in cases of immortal or long-lived species.)
Unfortunately that is never gonna happen because it would be way too much of an undertaking and there's probably not anyone skilled enough to write it well in the first place. There's definitely someone who could make a sweet book series out of it though.
Wow. This was just truly epic and it flowed well! Awesome job!
If they didn't want trillions to die then they shouldn't have touched that worthless system I wanted.
I've always thought of Stellaris while listening to this song. It just fits so well.
this video makes me want to play this game and I have not idea what it's about
Basically galactic warcrimes, like the dude on the video who blew up a planet cuz he got sanctions put on him
Back again. I can now say with confidence that this exactly how the game feels
@@Wakeful_mistakew
I hope this never gets taken down my god I love it.
i've got tears in my eyes, man. I'm hyped and emotional for a show that doesn't even exist. Fantastic work!
gave me chills
Edit: i just watched this on my vr and omg was it amazing
I absolutely love this, someone should make a show based around stellaris.
This made me boot up Stellaris for the first time in a while and start a new game, thanks ;3
The templin institute is a really good channel with their stellaris invictus series, creating a narrative to go along with the streams they do. Really brings you into the world.
i like your profile picture
"Let the galaxy BURN!" Horus Lupercal
This reminded me of one playthrough I had where I made a federation and called it the galactic republic (There were only 5 empires in the entire game and 2 of them were fanatic purifiers so we didnt have th galactic community.) When I united the 3 empires that didnt want to kill everything we had about 20 years of peace. Then the fallen empires got a bit angry at us and for the next 80-100 years it was just billions upon billions of Fallen empire and galactic republic citizens dying to collosi, bombardment, invasions, etc. I tried to play nice as well and had rules of war and evrything until the FE cracked a core world and then it turned into who had more worlds because sooner or later one of us was going to run out of citizens. I wrote down every battle, major event, and war during this 80-100 years in-game and I learned only that stellaris simulated the domino effect very well.
We are born to inherit the stars
This is so good I thought it was an official trailer.
Thinking about playing stellaris: This video
Actually playing stellaris:
"Oh. They just closed their borders to us. Aren't you on the other side of the galaxy?"
"Is that the pretho- nope that's just a locust swarm"
"Wait, I have to vote in the galactic community?"
"Oh, they just opened their borders to us again."
"I finally got into a war, time for some fun"
"All they have is 2 corvette fleets.."
@bartdr5146 yes me ! I need exotic gas for my defence fleet ! what do you need ? How many credits do you need ? I got a production of 653 credits monthly
@@someone-wh2rb "Oh, now everyone is mad at me for destroying them. Welp, here I go on a galactic purge again..."
Spectacular! You've done a great job on this
This should be the trailer for this game shows how much expectations can happen until it turns into an all out war
How does this only have 21k views..paradox hire this dude this is great!!
The pledge played overtop the swelling music at the end gives me goosebumps everytime. Bravo sir, Bravo!
I saw this when it was first posted and found it again I gotta say this is absolutely amazing work just 👏👏👏👏 chills down my spine
This deserves more views. Straight up.
This made me tear up...and then eradicate half of the galaxy. Awesome work. Thank you. Great video, great game
Love it, artfully done.
That was epic, why is it less than 2000 views....
Bra-fucking-vo
Bra-fucking-vo
Job well done isn't enough
The music is right
The timing is right
The insurmental amount of time spent to get this done. Is isnae.
Ty
DarkIdeas
I can't believe this don't have millions of views after two years. I mean this shit always gets in my recommendation and I always press it.
Remember friends:
If someone's got Criminal Heritage, let them taste our neutron sweepers
Good God I did not expect this to be so good. Brought a tear to my eye.
Would be interesting to see a show where the human civilization starts off peaceful and curious and progressively gets hostile and dangerous as the show goes on, leaving the finale between the last coalition of alien species vs a vast, genocidal, xenophobic, human empire
So…40k?
@@corbanbausch9049 I mean yea but in 40k its less "lets explore the galaxy and make new friends, later uh oh it its screwed up lets kill them all" and more "Lets kill them all already"
@@corbanbausch9049 If You mean Tau then maybe. The fuckers even trusted Drukharii at one point. But humanity hell no, they were always xenophobic, at best they had non-aggression pacts with Xenos they couldn't enslave/exterminate during DAoT. And if You mean the great crusade then oh boi. Not even other human civilizations were safe from the start. And it backfired so horrendously that humanity is now doomed if nothing changes.
I mean, it would be interesting to see a show where the aliens push and take advantage of the humans to such an extent that their naivety is shattered and they respond with total war, like what is shown in this video.
The Stellaris game I enjoyed most was when I was playing as the United Nations of Earth. I was nearing 2400 and the crisis spawn, and then the second biggest empire in the galaxy declared war on me (I was the biggest), went to Sol and cracked Earth. That empire and its people were all gone by the time the crisis spawned.
Beautiful. Utterly amazing.
Damn this is a masterpiece
SUFFER NOT THE HERETIC
SUFFER NOT THE WITCH
SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT
SUFFER NOT THE XENOS
FOR ALL SHALL BE PURGED IN THE EMPORERS WRATH
Except Bubbles the planet-sized space dragon. They're cool.
@@TarsonTalon HERESY!!!!!
i would watch the hell out of a show like this
Amazingly done. I was crying by the end. What an astounding emotional ride with the different trailers and that great choice in song.
This video was amazingly well done, and elicits memories of some of my most favorite playthroughs. I often like to think of my campaigns in a written narrative as events have happened or after they've passed, and this video accomplishes that feeling so easily.
I remember playing as a human imperium that was *genuinely* trying to better the galaxy and not be a xenophobe. I wasn't even mass-conquering, I was trying to unite via federations and diplomacy, but everyone and their mother hated me for one treaty or another I had with another individual, or my ideologies. At the end of the day, the only loyal nation to me was one that I raised from Pre-FTL to the galactic stage. My race become psionic, and eventually they became psionic from being in close proximity to my race(They were Vassals). They had fought alongside me against these snail aliens with huge squidward noses that were just NOT giving me a chance to prepare the galaxy for the coming crisis.
After long wars from them, and then an Avian race of xenophobes, my personality with my empire gradually became one of an optimist to a bitter pragmatist. Even still, in these dark times, my vassal stood by me loyally, staunchly, even when my fleet power became low, when vassals at the time would quickly deteriorate in loyalty if your military hit rock bottom from a lost war.
We had been through nearly 250 years together, creating a solid base of imperial space near the core of the galaxy. And then the Prethoryn Scourge invaded, and along with my enemies, 75% of my empire, including 4 core worlds with max population, they ate my vassals. All of them. They went extinct.
This campaign was started a few days after the apocalypse dlc was purchased by me, and I made extensive, enraged use of super weapons and mega structures in a tiny corner system -My last vanguard against the scourge that was otherwise gonna make me lose the game-, and I scoured them from the face of my galaxy with atomic fire and durasteel. I enslaved one of their queens and used them to fight against their own kin, and during all this, the rest of the galaxy sat quietly, content just to watch as I was being devoured by the Scourge, not offering to help join the fight. I was the sole target being attacked at the time, the entire focus of the scourge, so the rest of the galaxy was largely untouched save for my enemies who were eaten at the beginning, and my vassal. Despite losing most of my territory, I ended up winning the crisis BY MYSELF, and incinerating the infestation to the last. On top of it all, my Total War policies adopted just to make sure my civilization survives this holocaust ended up making me go from Xenophilic, materialist, and militarist to Fanatic Militarist, and Authoritarian, along with changing civics to Esteemed Admiralty, and the Supremacy policy. I came out stronger than I was before the crisis, and proceeded to turn to the rest of the galaxy that left me and my beloved vassal for dead, and I made sure that each and every one of those passive, bystander bastards paid tribute to MY galactic empire within the next few decades.
"It's not what you did, it's who you did it to"
"He is a man of commitment, focus, and sheer ***ing will"
@@carteradams43 I appreciate this comment so much lmao. They killed my beloved dog.
@@michaeladams2146 never felt bad for a vassal before lmao, thanks for the story.
@@carteradams43 thanks for taking the time to read it! It was one of my all time favorite playthroughs, simply because of how dramatic it felt. I have not had such a loyal vassal since that playthrough. All others were treacherous punks that had to be kept in line.
Thank you for this comment
Man this was really wel made
It’s been almost a month
I’ve listened to this a little too much in that time
Thank you
Truly Brought Tears to Me.
Humanity First.
Humanity Above All.
Lol all joking aside this absolutely epic dude. Great job.
HUMANITY SUPREME
Joking?
beautiful
dam you even made me feel bad making the colussus
If you close your eyes and listen to this it sounds like it could work for a 40k trailer.
Also enything that isn't human and is sentient should stop to exist
ah yes, xenophobia, the one thing that unites the stellaris and 40k communities.
Eeeeehhhhh maybeeee maybeeenooot
@@amerlad Hey maybe if xenophile let you evict bad pops it wouldn't be such a meme.
This video is sick! Great work!